Sub Rosa

Records by legendary avant-garde, experimental and electronic music label Sub Rosa
 
Brussels
 
259 titles
 
 Z\'EV - Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear (2 CD)
2013
Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).
 Z\'EV - Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear (LP)
2013
Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).
Luc Ferrari - Programme Commun (2 CD)
2012
Three substantial pieces by Luc Ferrari, with solo works of Brunhild Ferrari.
Hans van Eck - La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura / Nuctemeron (CD / SACD)
2012
Two works by the Italian avant-garde composer of classical music Luigi Nono and the composer, sound artist and musicologist Hans van Eck.
Stefan Prins - Fremdkörper (2 CD)
2012
13.00 9.00 €
A totally original and disturbing sound world mixing acoustic and electro-acoustic pieces.
Marianne Pousseur - Only (CD)
2011
Marianne Pousseur sings John Cage and James Joyce, Morton Feldman and Rainer Maria Rilke, Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht, Giacinto Scelsi, György Kurtág, Henri Pousseur and Friederich Hölderlin, Frederic Rzewski and Langston Hughes, E. E. Cummings, Michel Butor, Théodore Botrel, Rudolf Sieczynski...
Henri Pousseur - Parabolique d\'Enfer / Parabolic from Hell (CD)
2011
First posthumous recording of Henri Pousseur.
John Wynne - Installation for 300 Speakers, Pianola and Vacuum Cleaner (CD)
2011
John Wynne's untitled installation for 300 speakers, pianola and vacuum cleaner, at once monumental, minimal and immersive, using sound and sculptural assemblage to explore and define architectural space and to investigate the borders between sound and music.
Giacinto Scelsi - Tre Canti Popolari + Due Componimenti Impetuosi (2 CD)
2010
currently out of stock
Two long time out of stock references, remastered at le Laboratoire Central.
Peter Downsbrough - And That (vinyl LP)
2009
An audio work by Peter Downsbrough, in collaboration with two musicians of the Buffle collective Xavier Garcia-Bardon and Benjamin Franklin.
Charlemagne Palestine - From Etudes to Cataclysms - For the Doppio Borgato (2 CD)
2008
One of Charlemagne Palestine's most important work to date: an impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on an unique instrument, a double piano on which one keyboard is played by the feet.
Brion Gysin - Live in London, 1982 (CD)
2007
Recorded four years before the death of Beat legend Brion Gysin, this live set features the poet reciting poems from the late '50s and early '60s, accompanied by a makeshift no wave backing band.
Stephen Vitiello - Listening to Donald Judd (CD)
2007
A work in progress evolving from the numerous recordings Stephen Vitiello made of the sculptures of American artist Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas.
Henri Pousseur - Hommage au sauvage - Un portrait d\'Henri Pousseur (DVD)
2005
French / English subtitles
A journey into Henri Pousseur's archives.
 Ensemble Dedalus - Discreet Music/Music for Airports/Thursday Afternoon (2 CD)
2023
sold out
The Dedalus Ensemble revisits the three pioneering works of ambient music.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - What On Earth (Que Diable) (vinyl LP)
2022
sold out
With their sixth studio album, Oiseaux-Tempête unveils a new facet of its mythology through a dense work that carries darkness towards the light of day, that rumbles, calms down and warms up again. Like the silhouette of a lighthouse that reveals itself as its torch rises and shines, the powerful beauty of What On Earth (Que Diable) radiates into an expanding musical cosmos.
Julius Eastman - Two Extended Pieces For Four Pianos (2 vinyl LP)
2022
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Julius Eastman's Four Pianos (1979-80), performed by Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Nicols Horvath and Wilhem Latchoumia.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff - Conductor / Life and Death of Pboc (2 vinyl LP)
2022
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Two rare historical recordings (1983 and 1986) by the godfather of Dark Ambient, originally released as single sides and gathered here for the first time.
Leo Kupper - Complete Electronic & Voices Works 1961-1987 (3 CD)
2022
sold out
The complete works of one of the pioneers of Belgian early electronics.
Michel Redolfi - Sonic Waters, Underwater Music 1979-1987 (vinyl LP)
2021
sold out
A work for underwater performance that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
Julius Eastman - Three Extended Pieces For Four Pianos (2 CD)
2021
sold out
Julius Eastman's Four Pianos (1979-80), performed by Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Nicols Horvath and Wilhem Latchoumia.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - Opening Performance Orchestra plays Phill Niblock - Four Walls Full Of Sound (CD)
2021
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An electronic interpretation of the works of Phill Niblock by the Prague-based group Opening Performance Orchestra.
Julius Eastman - Femenine - Performed by ensemble 0  (CD)
2021
sold out
Julius Eastman's major yet long-forgotten ensemble piece from 1974, dense and hypnotic, played by Ensemble 0.
 Palo Alto - Difference and Repetition - A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze (CD)
2020
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Palo Alto pays tribute to Gilles Deleuze in a dazzling, radical and political concept album (featuring Richard Pinhas, Thierry Zaboitzeff of Art Zoyd, Alain Damasio and Rhys Chatham).
 Palo Alto - Difference and Repetition - A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze (2 vinyl LP)
2020
sold out
Palo Alto pays tribute to Gilles Deleuze in a dazzling, radical and political concept album (featuring Richard Pinhas, Thierry Zaboitzeff of Art Zoyd, Alain Damasio and Rhys Chatham).
Joris de Laet - Experimental &  Parametric Music 1976-2017 (2 CD)
2020
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Through “Experimental & Parametric Music 1976-2017,” more than 40 years of Joris de Laet's work are unveiled. We discover here for the first time the great coherence of this work: from “Signalisations” (1976) to “Mnemosyne pour une acousmaman” (2017). The twelve compositions are annotated and explained in detail by the composer, as well as a kind of wild autobiography.
Ulrich Krieger - Wall of Sound - Drones Patterns Noises (3 CD)
2020
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Walls of Sounds is a music of sonic sensations. It is a physical and sensual approach to the phenomenon of thick sound worlds. Sound waves become physical objects, four-dimensional sonic sculptures to be experienced, bodily and mentally (works by Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, John Cage, John Duncan, James Tenney, Terry Riley, Lee Ranaldo, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Boris Hegenbart, Ulrich Krieger, Zbigniew Karkowski).
 Oiseaux-Tempête - Tlamess (Sortilège) (vinyl LP)
2020
sold out
Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack composed for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian Director Ala Eddine Slim. Fully instrumental, this immersive film score is also their most electronic album to date.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - Tlamess (Sortilège) (CD)
2020
sold out
Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack composed for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian Director Ala Eddine Slim. Fully instrumental, this immersive film score is also their most electronic album to date.
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 1 (vinyl LP)
2019
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This anthology brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology. The first volume is an exploration of spiritualism and haunted houses. It features records of spiritual séances and medium trances, haunting spirits and haunted places, audios of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini...
 Institute of Sonology - Early Electronic Music - 1959-1969 (2 vinyl LP)
2019
sold out
Early electronic music from 1959 to 1969 produced by the Institute of Sonology, in Utrecht, Holland. Their pioneering research work helped define brand-new forms during the crucial 1960s decade.
 Institute of Sonology - Early Electronic Music - 1959-1969 (CD)
2019
sold out
Early electronic music from 1959 to 1969 produced by the Institute of Sonology, in Utrecht, Holland. Their pioneering research work helped define brand-new forms during the crucial 1960s decade.
Milan Knížák - String Quartets (vinyl LP)
2019
sold out
A compilation of string compositions and collages by multimedia artist and composer Milan Knížák, performed by the fama Q string quartet.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - From Somewhere Invisible (vinyl LP)
2019
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Oiseaux-Tempête's fourth studio album embraces the new, leaving aside the nomadic evocations of the previous albums to unfold as a twilight and prophetic orchestra around G.W. Sok's punctuated voice.
 Univers Zéro - Phosphorescent Dreams (CD)
2019
sold out
Available for the first time outside Japan, another epic album of symphonic schizophrenic avant-rock from legendary band Univers Zéro.
An Anthology Of Greek Experimental Electronic Music – 1966-2016 (2 CD)
2019
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This anthology aspires to map the heterogenous landscape of Greek Experimental Electronic Music in all its contextual, sociopolitical, geographical and aesthetic disparity. With a single exception, it zeroes in on post-80s music. It comprises works of very different kinds by composers of all sorts of backgrounds that, still, can be thought of, as both “Greeks” and “Experimentalists”.
An Anthology Of Greek Experimental Electronic Music – 1966-2016 (2 vinyl LP)
2019
sold out
This anthology aspires to map the heterogenous landscape of Greek Experimental Electronic Music in all its contextual, sociopolitical, geographical and aesthetic disparity. With a single exception, it zeroes in on post-80s music. It comprises works of very different kinds by composers of all sorts of backgrounds that, still, can be thought of, as both “Greeks” and “Experimentalists”.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - The Noise Of Art (CD)
2019
sold out
This album contains seven compositions, created by the Opening Performance Orchestra, Blixa Bargeld, Luciano Chessa and Fred Möpert. All the pieces relate to the theme of Futurism and employ intonarumori, instruments invented and used more than a century ago by the Italian Futurists in their noise compositions.
 Merzbow - Merzopo (2 CD)
2018
sold out
A collaborative 2-CD album by Japan noise legend Masami Akita alias Merzbow and Czech seven-member ensemble Opening Performance Orchestra. The first CD features four folk-inspired Merzbow compositions. The second CD gathers two live recordings of the Opening, made in Tokyo and Prague.
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